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FBI serves Grand Jury subpoena likely relating to WikiLeaks

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - In the wake of a massive disclosure of Guantanamo files by WikiLeaks, the FBI yesterday served a Grand Jury subpoena in Boston on a Cambridge resident, compelling his appearance to testify in Alexandria, Virgina.

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How right-wing hysterics keep danger levels high for the nation's law-enforcement officers

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Crooks and Liars - By David Neiwert - Mar. 06 (Opinion) - The incident was yet another reminder that one of the most significant ongoing threats to law enforcement officers in this country comes from right-wing extremists of the Patriot/"sovereign citizen" variety -- people who take Republicans' government-bashing rhetoric to its illogical extreme and declare themselves free of federal laws and functionally laws unto themselves.

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Serious doubt cast on FBI's anthrax case against Bruce Ivins

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Feb. 16 (Opinion) - That there's so much lingering doubt about who was responsible for this indescribably consequential attack is astonishing, and it ought to be unacceptable.

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The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Nov. 28 (Opinion) - The FBI is obviously quite pleased with itself over its arrest of a 19-year-old Somali-American, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who -- with months of encouragement, support and money from the FBI's own undercover agents -- allegedly attempted to detonate a bomb at a crowded Christmas event in Portland, Oregon.

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Politically correct Portland rejected feds who saved city from terrorist attack

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Examiner - By Byron York - Nov. 28 (Opinion) - In 2005, leaders in Portland, Oregon, angry at the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror, voted not to allow city law enforcement officers to participate in a key anti-terror initiative, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. On Friday, that task force helped prevent what could have been a horrific terrorist attack in Portland. Now city officials say they might re-think their participation in the task force -- because Barack Obama is in the White House.

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FBI Raids and the Criminalization of Dissent

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - Early in the morning on Friday, Sept. 24, FBI agents in Chicago and Minnesota’s Twin Cities kicked in the doors of anti-war activists, brandishing guns, spending hours rifling through their homes. The FBI took away computers, photos, notebooks and other personal property. Residents were issued subpoenas to appear before a grand jury in Chicago. It was just the latest in the ongoing crackdown on dissent in the U.S., targeting peace organizers as supporters of “foreign terrorist organizations.”

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Newspaper Cartoonist Goes into Hiding After Fatwa Issued

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Weekly - By Mark D. Fefer - Sep. 15 (Editorial) - On the insistence of the FBI, Seattle's Molly Norris is "going ghost": moving, changing her name and essentially wiping away her identity. Why? Because of the appalling fatwa issued against her, following her infamous "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" cartoon.

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Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TruthDig - By Chris Hedges - Aug. 02 (Opinion) - Today I will teach my final American history class of the semester to prison inmates. We have spent five weeks reading Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” The class is taught in a small room in the basement of the prison. I pass through a metal detector, am patted down by a guard and walk through three pairs of iron gates to get to my students. We have covered Spain’s genocide of the native inhabitants in the Caribbean and the Americas, the war for independence in the United States and the disgraceful slaughter of Native Americans.

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